A 19thC French Table Globe Prepared by Maison Dèlamarche Paris 1870 antiques Girls pictured with skipping ropes

Girls pictured with skipping ropes and hoops are also a favoured Georgian pose for children in portraiture and always command high prices when depicted in oils or watercolours

has been endlessly copied ever since by artists interested in giving their figures greater animation

There are two small areas of loss to the nose of the trout

which he bought in 1809

A 19thC French Table Globe Prepared by Maison Dèlamarche Paris 1870 antiques Girls pictured with skipping ropesOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 17(the whole) Width: 11 at widest point Base Diameter: 6 The attractive, finely mapped and well proportioned paper, plaster and cardboard, eight inch terrestrial table globe having a brass meridian circle and equatorial etched brass table and standing on the original draught turned ebonised base, the whole prepared by Maison Dlamarche Paris in 1870 and stamped as such within